Sanitation Manager

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and supervise the sanitation team by providing coaching, training, performance feedback, and accountability to foster a safe, engaged, and high-performing workforce.
• Plan, schedule, and oversee all daily, weekly, monthly, and annual sanitation activities to support production schedules while maintaining food safety and sanitation standards.
• Maintain compliance with all applicable food safety, sanitation, and workplace safety regulations.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the Master Sanitation Schedule (MSS), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), equipment cleaning procedures, environmental cleaning programs, and chemical handling procedures.
• Verify sanitation effectiveness through inspections, ATP testing, allergen verification, environmental monitoring, and other validation methods to ensure sanitary conditions are consistently achieved.
• Lead sanitation readiness and serve as the primary contact during customer audits, regulatory inspections, and third-party certification audits.
• Investigate sanitation-related deviations, non-conformances, and food safety concerns, implementing corrective and preventive actions to eliminate root causes.
• Monitor sanitation performance metrics (KPIs) and identify opportunities to improve cleaning effectiveness, labor efficiency, equipment uptime, and overall operational performance.
• Cookordination sanitation activities with Production, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, and Engineering to minimize downtime while ensuring equipment is properly cleaned and ready for startup.
• Verify equipment readiness following sanitation activities and support production startup to ensure compliance with sanitation and food safety requirements.
• Manage sanitation chemical inventories, ensuring proper storage, labeling, usage, and employee training in accordance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Oversee the maintenance, inspection, and proper operation of sanitation equipment and tools to maximize reliability and effectiveness.
• Promote a culture of food safety, employee safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence through active leadership and employee engagement.
• Maintain accurate sanitation records, documentation, and reports to support regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and operational performance.

Position Requirements

• Previous supervisory/leadership experience
• Food grade manufacturing facility experience
• HACCP Certification, SQF Practitioner, PCQI
• 3-5 years previous GMP experience
• Strong knowledge of computer software applications
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, strong interpersonal and communication skills

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a healthy 401(k) company match program.
• The starting annual base salary range for this position is between $100,000-$110,000 USD with initial eligibility consideration for our Discretionary Incentive Plan.
• Additional Compensation offered to eligible employees: Mobile Device Reimbursement and Travel Reimbursement.